This tree was not here when Moses and the children of Israel camped down the road at the oasis of Yotvata, nor when the Romans built their fortress opposite that oasis. But our acacia was here ...

Acacia trees are usually found in Africa, but there are four types in Israel, and the winter thorn species, also called the apple ring tree (Acacia albida) is the only acacia species in the ...

Within the southern Arava, through which, according to the Torah, Moses led the Children of Israel en route to the Promised Land, the acacia tree to this day is the keystone to its ecosystem.

The paper recommends that the ecosystem of the Negev and Aravah could be rehabilitated if it was planted with acacia trees from species not common nowadays in Israel. Tamar Kafri. Photo by Yael ...

Photo courtesy of Flora of Israel “You can find the common oak in many areas of Israel ... Spiraled (twisted) acacia: near Sde Boker The spiraled acacia tree is like a small oasis in the Negev Desert.

Though Israel boasts many eucalyptus trees, they are neither ancient nor native ... It’s in a small wadi [valley] whose official name is Nahal Noked, but people call it the ‘Tree Wadi.’ Acacia fruit ...

Acacia trees often stand alone on the desert sands ... Fund forester for 58 years – insisted on planting cedar groves in Israel. Although cedars of Lebanon didn’t do very well in our climate ...

In a new Israeli study, scientists found that the acacia tree in the Arava desert in Israel is the world’s largest tree growing in such a hot and dry climate. The tree has an even higher growth ...

Oaks, pine and willow line the trails that circle through this nature park near Mount Carmel in northern Israel ... like the acacia tree this model is named after. Its seven broad "leaves ...